"Travel and Food Experiences in Italy~ their influences on my American life, plus photos and recipes, too!" by Mark Leslie, author "Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language & Life with an Italian Family"
Click here to download: This_aint_no_rabbit_food....zip (3355 KB) and Mr. McGregor isn't going to run...
June, 28 2010 • 2 Comments • 0 Faves
Click here to download: M...I...C....zip (8950 KB) "See you in Siena...
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Click here to download: La_Parola_del_Giorno...The_Wor.zip (7340 KB) Salsicce...
May, 26 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Funghi...Mushrooms~ “Hey, you sure are a fun-guy,” my sixth-grade science teacher would say, trying to get us all to laugh at the lame twist of pronunciation...
May, 17 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Happy Mother's Day~ My very first trip to Italy was in 2001. Richard and I took our mothers with us for a 10-day trip in Tuscany—Siena, Florence, Cortona, Montalcino, Rome...
May, 9 2010 • 2 Comments • 0 Faves
via speakingofstories.org A tomato is still a tomato~ Fannie Flagg has written an endorsement for the book’s jacket. I received a very sweet note from her last week and her endorsement reads...
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Sugo…a.k.a. Pasta Sauce~ Ciao Tutti! I thought I’d post a little online cooking tutorial for you to enjoy. It is broken into two parts—the original recording was too big...
April, 26 2010 • 2 Comments • 0 Faves
Click here to download: Le_Parole_del_Giorno_The_Words.zip (1437 KB) MOSCA e ZANZARA~ The weather has been absolutely...
April, 19 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Click here to download: Back_to_business.zip (7973 KB) **Thanks to everyone for their tremendous...
April, 6 2010 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
via gemellipress.blogspot.com Hardbound baby~ I am very excited to announce that my manuscript now has a publisher--Gemelli Press in Seattle, Washington. "Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language & Life with an Italian Family" by Mark Donovan Leslie is set to have a late summer/early fall release date. Soon it will be available for advance, pre-release purchase on line via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at the book's website, http://beyondthepasta.com,—you can bookmark the website now for future reference, but the...
March, 28 2010 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
Clang, clang, clang went the trolley~ Standing on a platform waiting for a train in Rome can be a nerve wracking experience, especially when you are alone and don’t speak the language. When I first...
February, 8 2010 • 1 Comment • 0 Faves
Nonna cooks Pollo con Limone~ Recently, I received an e-mail from Alessandra filling me in on all the happenings back in Viterbo. I mailed the Feb House Beautiful with the article on our house (http://www.mark-leslie.net/2010-starts-with-a-bang) to them back in early January and, when I hadn’t heard from them, I sent an e-mail making sure that they had received the magazine. Of course, they received it and loved the house and article. Alessandra had to translate the interview for Nonna and Lillo, who don’t speak...
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Mark Leslie works in professional theatre as a stage manager and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. Currently he is busy working with Gemelli Press on his first book "Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language & Life with an Italian Family." http://beyondthepasta.com
Every year, Mark vacations in Italy and lives to eat his way through every plate of pasta and cone of gelato placed before him. In 2005, he had the good fortune to live for a month in Viterbo, Italy with the Stefani family. There he took cooking lessons from Nonna, the grandmother of the family, and Italian language lessons from Alessandra, the mother. That experience is the basis of his first book "Beyond the Pasta: Recipes, Language, & Life with an Italian Family." SEE DETAILS ABOUT THE BOOK: http://mark-leslie.net/we-have-a-publisher
THEATRICAL CREDITS:
Mark is in Winona, MN working on GRSF's production of COMEDY OF ERRORS. Recently, he wrapped up LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and AIDA for Opera Birmingham in Alabama. Last September, he stage managed CABARET at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina in Hilton Head, SC. He also worked at the Arts Center in 2005 on its production of Evita. This past summer, he worked in Minnesota on Great River Shakespeare Festival’s production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Over the past 22 years, Mark’s regional theatre credits include: Denver Center Theatre Company (White Christmas, Noises Off, and a reading of a new adaption of The Unsinkable Molly Brown directed by Kathleen Marshall and authored by Dick Scanlon), Alabama Shakespeare Festival (resident stage manager on over 65 productions), Actors’ Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival (D. Boone by Marsha Norman), Arizona Theatre Company (Amadeus, Loot, and Ain’t Misbehavin’ directed by Arthur Faria), and Maine State Music Theatre (Phantom, South Pacific, Jesus Christ Superstar, La Cages Aux Folles, and the world premiere of Chamberlain).
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